The world of basketball

Chapter 116
Mu Xiaobei and Carlin invited Popovich, Duncan, the Gasols, the Gays, Jeremy Lin, Kuzma, Rondo, McGee, Lonnie Walker and Stephenson on Carlin’s birthday night. Individuals are all Mu Xiaobei's teammates or former teammates, as well as Mu Xiaobei's friends and seniors.

After the party, the three members of the Lakers had already left. Carlin, Gasol's wife and Gay's wife went to other places to talk about their women's favorite topics, and Mu Xiaobei and his party came to the living room.

Well, looking at it this way, it seems that they are all Spurs players.

"Mu, the Chinese food you cook is really good, better than many Chinese restaurants I've eaten at." Lonnie Walker patted Mu Xiaobei's words and said.

"Well, I'm actually not very good at cooking. It's just that tomato scrambled eggs are delicious, but the rest are cooked according to recipes. Let alone a chef, any experienced housewife in China is better than me. Cooking is delicious." Mu Xiaobei exposed this kid mercilessly.

I don't know if it was for the convenience of Mu Xiaobei touching his head, Lonnie Walker changed his hairstyle, but only wore a more casual dirty braid.

"Actually, I asked you to come here not just to celebrate Carlene's birthday. There is another thing. I want to talk to you about the future direction of the team." Popovich said straight to the point.

"." Everyone didn't speak, just listening to Popovich.

"My original direction was to use wood and LaMarcus to play the twin towers together, but now it seems that the future direction will change." Popovich said.

Mu Xiaobei looked around, Jeremy Lin and Gay are both free agents this summer, will Popovich tell such important things to two soon-to-be free agents?

"The advice given by LaMarcus's doctor is that he no longer recommends that LaMarcus play basketball again." Popovich's calm words made the audience silent for a while.

Mu Xiaobei was startled at first, then saddened in his heart.

For Mu Xiaobei, Ade is a senior, a mentor, and a very important friend of Mu Xiaobei.

"The doctor advised him not to play basketball anymore."

I don’t know how many people have suggested this sentence by their own surgeons, such as Rose’s knee and ankle, such as Jeff Green, such as Channing Frye, such as Chris Bosh, such as Adelaide now.

Each of them has an inspirational and touching story, each of them deeply loves basketball, and they all overcame great difficulties just to be able to return to the NBA.

Needless to say, Rose, Jeff Green's heart is well known, Channing Frye's story is even more touching, Bosh's blood clots in the lungs of this damn power forward tortured.

And Ade, just made a small, ordinary shooting action, why can it be so serious that he can't play basketball?Mu Xiaobei didn't know, he just felt that the world was impermanent, and God was not fair to let a reserved, calm, kind-hearted boy like Ade suffer this kind of unreasonable disaster, this kind of disaster that ruined his career.

Ade himself must know about Ade's own situation, but he can still welcome himself and Karlin with a calm smile.

A person who has experienced the wind and snow outside the Great Wall can face others with a light rain of apricot blossoms. Facing the world requires extremely strong courage in itself.

Mu Xiaobei's respect for Ade was even higher.

"However," Popovich made a turning point: "The doctor said that if LaMarcus recovers seriously, it is still possible to return to the game after a year of recuperation, but his competitive level may not reach the peak moment level."

"In other words, LaMarcus will definitely not be able to play next season, so we should change our style of play. Our salary this summer is enough to introduce an All-Star free agent on the basis of retaining regular players." Popovich said.

"I've prepared two styles of play now, one is the twin towers, and the second is one big and four small. It just depends on who we can chase this year."

The 2019 free market is definitely a very crazy market, which is destined to enter a crazy summer in the NBA in two months.

There are all-star players alone: ​​Irving, Leonard, Kemba Walker, Thomas Jr. (well, it seems to be 11 years old), and Durant, Butler, Horford, Cousins, Clay Thompson, Howard.

In addition to these, there are Vucevic, Ariza, Mirotic, Blood Cloth, Redick, Middleton, Oubre, Kanter and so on.

This season, Cousins ​​averaged 20+10 per game after the Warriors returned in January. Compared with when he led the team with a single core, Cousins ​​​​has indeed declined a little bit, but it does not mean that his athletic ability or technology has declined.

He is still one of the top centers in the league, which is why the Warriors are desperately strong after Cousins ​​returned this season.

Suffering serious injuries but still being able to maintain a very strong competitive ability, Cousins ​​is really blessed by God, compared to Adelaide.

So if Popovich is willing to spend 500 million to play the Twin Towers, he will only choose Cousins.

Of course, Vucevic is also possible, but although Vucevic is also very strong, he still seems to be a long way from Cousins.

Horford is also very strong, with a tough style of play, high quotient, experience, and stable shooting, but according to Popovich's analysis, Horford probably will not leave the Celtics.

But after Cousins ​​proved his own strength, he is definitely the sweet pastry that every team is vying for. The Spurs seem to have always had a hard time attracting big-name superstars. After all, it is a relatively small city, so it is naturally not as good as Boston. Big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago.

So Popovich made second-hand preparations. If he can't play the twin towers, then play a big and four small. Thirty-five million is enough to attract a great second and third positions or two great 500D players.

Such as Ariza, such as Redick.

Looking at Popovich's appearance, it seems that he has no interest in Irving and Walker, the two sneak shot guards during the offseason. Looking at Jeremy Lin and Mu Xiaobei, he seems to understand. It seems that Jeremy Lin will stay with the Spurs next season.

And Mudiay doesn't know. After all, Jeremy Lin is definitely capable of being the starting point guard of a team. His biggest shortcoming is the combing of the offensive end, but as long as he strictly follows Popovich's tactics, this one The shortcomings can be well made up for.

As for the 500 million to sign an All-Star at the second and third positions, there are many choices, and the most popular ones are naturally Klay Thompson and Jimmy Butler.

They chatted late that day, thinking of many possibilities, until Gasol and Gay's wife were too sleepy, and the Spurs generals ended the conversation.

The conversation that night gave Mu Xiaobei a relatively clear direction, and the last trace of uncertainty in his heart was swept away.

Go to sleep, after tomorrow it will be a trip to the sweet world of two people.

(End of this chapter)